Episode 256: Just Keep Spinning

This week the boys talk about Devil Wears Prada’s Caleb Hearon and his recent interview in the New York Times and a new MET fashion exhibit featuring mannequins with diverse body types. Then we discuss how we contextualize the comments people make about our bodies. 

BFGP 256: Just Keep Spinning

The Big Fat Gay Podcast

Partner: Cruising Bears

BiggerCruise Alaska 2026: June 27 2026 - July 4th 2026

• 7- Night Seattle to Alaska (Seattle Round Trip)

World Pride River Cruise 2026: July 23rd - 30th 2026

• 7- Night Basel, Switzerland to Amsterdam, Netherlands

Mailbag

• New York Times | He Quit Singing Because of Body Shaming. Now He’s Making a Comeback.

• Limmie on the Importance of Opera from the documentary Opera's Vanishing Voices

Pop Culture

• New York Times The Comedian With the Job ‘a Million Girls Would Kill For’

Fat Watch

• Smithsonian Magazine: Ahead of the 2026 Met Gala, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Introduced New Mannequins With Diverse Body Types Inspired by Real People

• The Met Museum | Costume Art

Tip: Chris Grace and Sardines at the New York Theater Workshop

May 5, 2026—June 14, 2026

A celebrated hit at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Sardines explores—with tremendous grace and humanity—the tragic, hilarious, and important questions of our time: Can we enjoy life if we know how it ends? Does making art actually help? And if Rihanna’s song is called “Don’t Stop the Music,” why does the music… stop? Find out in this deliciously authentic, insightful, and laugh-out-loud show created and performed by actor-comedian Chris Grace (“Superstore,” Dropout’s “Chris Grace: as Scarlett Johansson”).